Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ellicott City, Maryland
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Ellicott City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ellicott City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Ellicott City itself.
The rest sit in Columbia (3).
2 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Ellicott City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ellicott City
The readers mapped around Ellicott City break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 Mobile Pro Systems, 1 Axon. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Chatham Road — 2 readers
- Baltimore National Pike — 2 readers
- Blue Ivy Way — 1 reader
- Executive Center Road — 1 reader
Ellicott City in the Howard County picture
Howard County has 40 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,671 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 333,916 residents and 1,622 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2).
Camera activity around Ellicott City, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Ellicott City. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Ellicott City
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Ellicott City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ellicott City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Ellicott City
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Ellicott City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).